despite a goose-chase until 1a AND losing an hour to DST start, up at 7ish * * * When I encountered Runequest's differentiation of character starting careers by culture level (primitive, barbarian, civilized), I was intrigued. But I never connected that to anything more interesting about character story arcs than "caveman encounters civilization and adapts" ala the original RE Howard "Conan" stories. But of course Runequest's creators intended stories about reliving ancestor initiation rituals - negot... (...more)

turkey sausage egg + chz is at least as satisfying as pork roll egg + chz, prob less salt, certainly less sat.fat Ocean State for condolence card There's a word for a map that visualises the area within a given drive-time from a given location: isochrone maps ! If Charlotte area is the new prime target, then - what suburbs are least affected by PFAS pollution? - what's within the isochrone map of not-a-miserable-commute range? For that matter, what commute time makes an otherwise... (...more)

Turned off the streaming and settled down for sleep ~11, woke with 6:30 alarm. I was already a little stiff in the legs and glutes when I hit the gym yesterday morning, and feeling it all the more throughout the day and into today. Not severely taxed or injured, just that good kind of sore that says you're getting stronger. -But also of course a signal to back off and recover maybe an extra day. So, no sooner than Sunday. 200mg caf ~8? shower, fresh clothes, vitamin+oo, soy protein cocoa 29g let t... (...more)

I'm pretty discouraged with the state of search engines other than the alphabet-oligarch one. - LLM-powered digest responses to natural-language queries are the "killer app" of the mid-2020s - DuckDuckGo's index is less complete, and its LLM digests much more frequently just incorrect - Startpage is powered by the oligarch search index but lacks the killer LLM-digest feature - The Lumo LLM blends a powerful index with superior relationship privacy; BUT not transparent about sources The oligarc... (...more)

early to bed, wake ~5 vitamin, oo to support absorption, protein bev 29g, powders by 6:30 200mg caf and head to the gym a kind fellow showed me how to use the Smith machine for a few basic movements 2 sets each overhead presses (in front of and behind head) and curls (overhand, underhand) the usual 30-minute HIIT sprints for cardio Afterthoughts: isn't the main attraction of the Smith machine that squats work the most muscles in one motion? If you get to add just 1 machine to target muscl... (...more)